Cochlear implant update

We had a wonderful holiday.  We spent it home in Austin with our little family.  Angelica is still not walking or crawling but she is scooting and rolling.  She is very much a fun spirited, silly and "I can do it myself" little girl. 

We tested the right side on Wednesday and did not get a response.  This was the side that we were hopeful would respond.  We will move forward with testing the left side on Tuesday.  Angelica did exceptionally well at the appointment.  It was just under 3 hours.  There is a great deal of testing that is involved when turning on a cochlear implant.  We are not upset with the results and if this does not work out we are confident she will be just fine.  The only frustrating thing with all of this is the 11 hour surgery.  Such a long time to have surgery for something especially with her heart condition. She is doing well from surgery so I suppose I need to move forward from that frustration. 

The deaf community is such a proud awesome community we are very blessed to have become a part of that community.  We are enjoying learning sign language and have quite a ways to go.  She loves to watch people sign and she is signing a few words already.  Dad was the first and mom is on occasion.  We have had so much fun watching her grow and learn.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.

love,
Amanda, Chris and Angelica